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Show WHO GETS THE PLANES? WASHINGTON. Backstage, all the stew over whether the allies are getting planes ahead of the U. b. army and navy boils down to a personal per-sonal vendetta between the secretary secre-tary of war and the secretary ol the treasury, plus some needling by younger army air corps officers. It happens that Treasury Boss Henry Morgenthau asked for and got the job of co-ordinating airplane purchases, and his bouncing little cabinet colleague, Henry Woodring, didn't like it. If you note tne congressmen con-gressmen who are stirring up the investigation on Capitol Hill, they are chiefly friends of Secretary Woodring. Real fact is that although Morgenthau Mor-genthau has made some minor mistakes, mis-takes, his chief error has been in offending people. Army and navy plane purchases have not suffered. Both Secretary of the Navy Edison and Assistant War Secretary Johnson, John-son, who has charge of purchases, testify to this. U. S. planes have been delivered on time, and no secret planes are getting to the allies. Morgenthau's chief boner was in asking the quartermaster general of the army, Maj. Gen. Henry Gibbins, and the paymaster general of the navy, Rear Adm. Ray Spear, to sit ' in on his allied purchasing coordinating co-ordinating committee. Neither one knows anything about airplanes. Younger officers in the air corps resent re-sent this, and have been squawking, though the able chief of air corps, General Arnold, hasn't. Worried Morgenthau. Morgenthau got into the airplane picture because this is the one big commodity the allies are purchasing purchas-ing and he told the President he didn't want their financing operations opera-tions to upset the U. S. money market. mar-ket. To pay for the planes, the allies are dumping American securities, securi-ties, plus U. S. government bonds and Morgenthau didn't want them to depress his own government of-' ferings. (He has to issue new ones constantly.) Siding with Morgenthau are several sev-eral big shot army-navy men, including in-cluding Johnson and Edison, who say that the more planes the allies buy here, the more it helps the U. S. army and navy to develop better planes. For instance, the Glenn Martin company is building a brand new bomber for the French. But as a partial result of experimenting for the French, Martin also has developed devel-oped a new bomber for the U. S. which will almost fly circles around the French planes. Also Lockheed is selling several hundred tip-top planes to the British and French. This has helped it develop de-velop a new pursuit plane, which will make about 400 miles per hour. It is the first twin-motored pursuit plane, has a liquid-cooled engine and is expected to astound the world's fighting forces. CAPITAL CHAFF At the annual stunt party of the National Women's Press club every one of the 500 women present rose when Mrs Roosevelt was presented, except her cousin and bitter administration administra-tion hater, Mrs Alice Roosevelt Longworth Among those who did rise were Mrs. Thomas xs uewey, Mrs. Bob Taft, and Mrs. j Arthur Vanden- ' berg. Mrs. Long- ,,- . worth not only 06 Lonworb ostentatiousy remained seated but talked to others near her dmW Mrs. Roosevelt's little speech . MERRY-GO-ROUND Whether his membership on the Dies committee has anythfng to. d" with it is conjectural, but it is a fact that Rep. Noah Mason has no opposition in either the G. O P or Democratic primary in his rfJilndS,me Rep' Jennings Randolph, Ran-dolph, who through his chairrn" ship of the District of Co lumh V committee is known as "m7yo? 5 Washington, is being strongly ur to run for governor of West vP gm.a but is holding off became li tte bitter factional split among oC" Democrats. Only 37 " f Cal newsman and pressor. Ra ZZh has h.s eye on the U. S senate father, sefrcZ' M thnt his der Harding awL theaE.nCrUU1'C Un" of the cabinet V St mc,1or norses. CVL new aettorneyd'Sr:b R be ,h federal governm ! , 1Roason the to clean up l ouls" , t0 sU'P ' attorney gShm WM "llU 11,0 the thumb of t ho rs ,mcW chine Butmos of UCy Lon udcr the jSi ir" ra"a aid Uie federal V, thu M!,tl. Now. StanW ls Wt!P0 '1 "t more scd ,,s lordiS'"l lomnlgram; 'L.,',' ; Lllk'sl Dip- "'c British cmPl ,V0 ,,,I"U,H1 d Chamberlai,1;;,,;;':::1 H. |
